New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 20, 1930, Page 18

W BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1950 e, ‘lmo Elsa's bedroom. E She turned to the puzzled ton avenue. . Thorne drove his car Synopsis: Suspected of murder- “ing Dr. Paul “Kane with carbon ~-smonoxide gas, Jack Winslow, adopt- " ed son of Arnold Winslow, disap- ycars. Kane had been brought by " the elder Winslow to examine Elsa Lhase, beautiful crippled girl, loved by Jack. The elder man suspects she is a fraud. G. Thorne, detective has been engaged to probe Elsa's past, but now is investigating the . ‘Kane murder. Mrs. Lawrence, mysterious woman with a secret " hold over Elsa, dies suddenly, leav- ing among her effects a bill for reatment at a Chicago sanitarium ere Blsa had been a patient, and a clipping bearing the words, “The " hancing Silhouette” The wdow | ~ o/ a human being, madly danc ing, has been scen three times al the Winslow home at night, but| its source remains a mystery. It| develops that Mrs. Lawrence was the divorced wife of Dr. Kane. Lambert, the Winslow butler, at- | tracted by a 310444 reward news of Jack’s whereabouts, tells| Thorne, Jack is on hoard the| canal boat Jenny Wren outside | Washington. Thorne hurries away | to find the hoat. Chapter 30 | FOUL PLAY for | | down the i i. Conduit Road and across the Dis-| trict line with small regard for the | traffic laws of the sovereign state of | Maryland. He covered the distance | to the Lock Tavern Club at fifty | tusrailes an hour. *fr. Arriving there he skirted the| path about the club property to the | lcck house on the abandoned Chesa- | peake and Ohio Canal. It took sev-| eral valuable minutes to locate the former lock keeper. " “Whereabouts the Wren?" He repeated Thorne's ques- tion with provoking slowness of | speech. “I reckon she's moored far- | fher up the canal; that is, f ol Sol * _ain’t taken her further up; he was| talkin’ 'bout movin’ today.” | “Which road do I take?" broke in | Thorne impatiently. “My car's | " yonde pointing toward the tav-| Ttn. The lock keeper chuckled. | _ “The Conduit Road don't go no further,, an’ therc ain’t no gher: . .Jeastways not here. Youwll have to take the towpath.” Thorne started | along the towpath. Once beyond | view of the lock house, he quick-| ened his rapid walk into an easy | lope. On rounding a bend in the | ,~ canal, he saw a boat moored te the | bank just ahead. | Thorne looked over the stern and | the words, in black lettering, were plain; Jenny Wren. Again he hailed. The echo of his voice wa his only reply cabin door h> rapped, waited—one minute—two minutes, then turned the handle and looked inside. No | one was there. | Considerably perturbed he crossed the cabin, fitted up with | homely comforts as both living and | dining room, to the inner door. Opening that he walked into the | . Kitchen; still no” one was in sight. . Glancing hurriedly about he caught = sight of another door and swung it | open. Apparently it was the sleep- | ““ifig quarters of the owner and his| «.wife, for two comfortable bunks # lined the walls. He was about to turn back and < ye-enter the kitchen, when a groan “3'amote his ears. It came from under 2 a pile of bedclothes thrown helter- | skelter on top of onc of the bunks “ Tossing them off, Thorne saw an " elderly woman lying, fully dressed, in the bunk, bound and gagged Swiftly he released her, and filling a.cup with some whiskey from his | ., “fhsk, he gave it to her o He smiled down at her. “Pleasc igll me what's happened here, and | + where,” he hesitated, Lambert had | never mentioned the name of the owner of the Jenny Wren, “where | i3 your husband?"” i Sol Smith? Oh, he's gone city- > ward for a spell.” Mrs th raised ‘ Toth her hands to her aching head “How did you get in this fix?" At the question the woman's shaken wits returned to her with a rush. “Oh, that nice young man!" she moaned, then with complet change of tone, her eyes flashing “See it he's on the boat and use | your gun, if yow've got on he'll wallop you same as he done | me.” | Thorne needed no second bidding. He had paused only to revive the woman. Entering the smaller | stateroom he found the place in | confusion, A suit case lay on the fioor, its contents scattered hither and yon, the bedding from the two | bunks was dumped in one corner, the mattresses spread in anolher l apparently nothing had been left | intact; even the built-in-dresser | was ransacked and its contents spread about. The detective sped from there into the the canal hoat is Jenny e 5 | cause | il and o over | then went onee to the owner's stateroom, thorough- 1, eonvinced {hat he and Mrs Smith were its living occ morc only u- | chair | vou about, | impatience Going over to the | tiny | implied knowl | that | judged you ® Tossing ofi some bedelothes, Thori bunk, bound and gagged. pants He found nursir “Where is Jack nded, and wven paler was the same thing h mumbled incoherently I could turn around he over the head.” s “F Wha? mith sitting in a her head Winslow ?" he de- n the woman's cheeks grew asked,” |s an' be- | swatled she fere me he nice but you won't listen.” Mrs. Smith was on the verge tears, between fright and shock edged her chair arcund so that Thorne could not approach closer |{ without hes knowing it. “I tole him tw none of his business | c where Jack was, an’ he bows polite | ¢ thinks I, Iig's gone I knows no more till I come to |t unk with a in my an’, an’ in my own rag m t did questioned the Thorn he give his name She shook her head he never A rupted her and Thorne fumed with “He weren't so tall as complexioned, with beautiful teeth that's all 1 man look like?” erly. “Did | “T axed but | nceze inte r- | you, was dark mustache, an’ a pleasant smile; can tell you." Thorne hesitated: was of value, but could h rly woman alone on Supposc the st ger and did her further description fitted no one Thorne could recall; and yet his errand dge of Jack Winslow. 1 But if he was sent by Mrs. Winslow | to locate Jack, why should he '14-} tack the old woman Also, in: r.uli of sending another, why had not |y Mrs. Winslow confided her knowl- edge of Jack's hiding place to her |( husband and let hin come for | y Above all, where the devil |} every moment |y leave the | boat? | ¢ back inj » Her | “ame ¢ vas Jack “Mrs. Smith slow- ly, impressively. "It tive that I get in touch with Jack Wins- lcw—for vour sake, t00." o “I can't tell you where to find J he gasped; “honest, I can't. He loft before sun-up.” t Chapter 31 CHASE GROWS HOY Marty, where be ye?” The | in a woman's shrill tones | trom the direction o after deck. | and Mrs. Smith's answer out | loudly t “Here 1 A moment mal spoke imper 10 is THE “Aunt hail came e rang b later an button tipped at i fe- | |t throat and ha a rak augle, ippeared in the door of Mrs ki i anxious look face: it cleared a of Smith “L card atter, soin was the said, looking with curi- Thorne. “You didn't you promised, an thing osity toward gome to dinner a voung n you wasn't well broke in Mrs there said as how Thorne to cony tion, drowning tled ejaculs “Where is *'Most in ie, 1 reckon comer, “He He Smith’s st ion he now ? to Washingtor * responded ridin® one I the 1 was motor ey cle weren't no ever womnar tion pped the Winslow had oc older commence ) oluble explan of re orr away unno t 1 co1 stateroom cupicd Did his has 1 A ppearance Of AUNT HET BY ROBL “Havin’ a female boarder islike havin’ measles. After you go through with it one time, you're cured for life.” Cepyright, 1330, Publishers Byndicate ] ] POOR PA UDE CALLAN ‘om got dangerou Iy sick he's constantly prais in' his deceased wife, an’ says afraid he'll soon meet up with her an” have to explain why he marric again.” Copyright. 1930, Putlisuers Syndicate —_— he's was knocking and tying her gone And looking? And had his search proven teresting placed vouung fella [ was tellin® | which had the gloves, pipes and so forth; pped in soft paper and being placed when bang, |in the large wooden hox containing bot- took already fire e tom mouth an’ them clothes’on top o' |jt loosc tin with | light | ten ba | way guisher filled with that Thorne wrapped zuisher W suite “hase cyes sparkled |ing in orderly bed. secing the curtains befors dow opening. pushed ta saw an elderly woman in it the who, M stranger, Smith up on her Jack's what through if so, for had he uceessful ? A cupboard yielded the objects from tandpoint, for there the luboratory according to Lambert, ttic at Oaklands, Slipping on a pair Thorne handled the bottles of chemicals, all had ubes, arefully wr otton batting be fore large object tracted Thorne and nd pulled back the wrapper, disclosing a hem. A at he out uisher alancing 1t in his hand studied the deepening interest weight, he judged . Why then pre ting? As and that, pulling out and mpty. mto his dark better method ised to gas into losed room than an old fire swiftly to up the pringing his and huri n “Tell me the shington.” Ba quickest looking cautiously of rooms set aside and her the latter's room that claimed her ght of nd the piles on thily as she w, and the arly the ardrobe trunk As st he withd 0% hand face appeared sway gently and a as a hem minutes later from El an arm load the door A few oming arrying open he wall, hed the here. 1 only stopping person irely abgorbed K, the trained nurse he man slip fr the first unconscious verth, belongings been had mbst in- Thorne had been artic| Jac moved from his workshop in of rubber gl blow- been the Thorn brass surface | By it to b rve it in cot- this han- dle and letting it in slowly, dawning horror crept | What he tipped it the could be pump through a keyhole arbon nmonoxide extin. poison gas? fe fire extin- into the kitch- way at Oaklands, Lucy, the maid, inside v Elsa trained nurse. ticu- Her open espionage clothe: Miss Klir had com missed win- parted in the the Miss Kline, and of clcthing, with vigor nd caused it to swing back toward s bedroom when secking refu, in never m behind the Not finding Mrs. Winslow in her beudoir, Lucy ran downstairs just lin time to answer the bell and admit Inspector Mitchgll, who requested to see Mr. Winsfow At his entrance Arnold Winslow pulled forward a chair. “I've Meen trying to get you,” I Where the devil is Thorne? “Haven't seen him since earlv morning. I have some news for * Winslow hitched his chair forward; the inspector’s quiet voice held a hint of excitement. Mitchell took a folded newspaper {out of his pocket and a photograp {laying the latter face down on Wins- {lcw's flat-top desk, he pointed to |the column of obit notices “Did you this? 2 hen I'l1 | read it to you: LAWRENC Suddenly, at he in 35th St., N. W last night. Notice later. Body city ‘Washington, of funeral at morgue. That mean anything to you?” “No,” admitted Winslow, frankly mystified by the inspector's impres. sive manne “1 don't recall any Mre, Lawrence.” “Well;” Mitchell paused for ef- feet; he was enjoying himself. “She was the divorced wife of Dr, Joseph Kane." “Good Lord!" The exclamation was echoed by his wife as she came into the den. “Singular and Kane should have died within a few days of each other and both her “It is,” agreed Mitchell heartily, springing up to offer his chair to Mrs. Winslow. “Most sin- gular.” “Please sit down i to stand,” and goirg to her hus- band’s side she rested a hand on his shoulder. “V ra ill long “No: heart trouble the autopsy showed, although dope might have been a contributory cause.” “A merciful death,” commented Mrs. Winslow softly. ’oor Sara her married life was brief and most unhappy. She was at fault,” rais- ing grave eyes to the inspector. He nodded. I imagine so from what I've learned. You know her career in Boston, Mr. Winslow?" “I have heard of her, but we nev- she, in; T prefer er met,’ divorced her came acqu; “Ah, then wouldn’t interest shortly before 1 be- ted with him.” this photograph you." Mitchell it up from the desk as he nd turned it about. “It was taken after death at the morgue. Catching a glimpse of Wirslow ted countenance, he added h tiiy: “It's rather w ghastly picture; perhaps T shouldn’t have shown to you and your wife. I'm sorry.” Winslow brushed his apology aside with a wave of his hand. “Let me have the picture.”” Pecring at it intently for a second in silence, he laid it face up on the desk and turned fo his silent companions, his excitement rising. “When 1 said just now 1 dida't know Sara Kane or a Mrs. Lawrence I did not realiz they W this woman; that is,” observing their bewilderment at his incoherent remark. “I've seen this | woman hanging about Oaklands within the last six weeks, talking to Elsa Chase.” * “What!" It picked spoke its de re was_ Mrs. Winslow to almost shrill with Llsa? the |l ar “don't sent “What did she wish know," said me notes, making ap- pointments she never kept, ating in these notes that she something discreditable | That's why 1 employed Thorne, to | find out what it's all about. And now the woman's dead and Thorne failed, dash him!” pounding his fist on the desk in his bitter disappoint- ment “Hold on!" cauiioned Mitchell. “Thorue may know: he it was who lecated the dead woman und put me wise as to her identity “And he hasn't reported to me?" Winslow spoie in sudden, blind anger. “And he is aware how vital [it is to me to know Elsa." “Wait!" hand his “She It | knew to Elsa all concerning it His on his shonlder | seat I will go wife's restraining pt him in interview her saw an door | front door | hung up the telephone receiver and | h; | responded the latter. “Kane | it | who spoke and her V¥ice was sharp,\| Winslow. insinu- | know something of it was in any inspector. pl | Sara Kane's life and way bound up with E |9/ fit inmate for my | sweeping past Mitchell, them. (Copyright, D. Appleton & Co.) | Dr. Kane's murder is solved with dramatic suddenness in tomorrow's | exciting chapter. SCIENTISTS READY 70 SHOOT ECLIPSE home,” and she left | | United States Naval Observatory Has Equipment Set Up | Niuafou TIsland. Oct. 20 Weeks of preparation for observ- |ance of the total eclipse of the sun {here tomorrow brought announ: | ments from members of scientit |expeditions today that all equip- ment was ready for the event and weather conditions appeared favor- able., The expeditions from New Zea- land and the United States naval | observatory had cameras and spec- | trographs ready for the 93 seconds | during which the sun will be in to- |tal eclipse. The solar orb was ob- |served today in 65 and 63 foot cam- |eras, insuring exact alignment for |the work the scientists have travel- ed thousands of miles to accom- plish The U. §. §. Tanager arrived here at daylight with the last unit of ob- The ship also had seven women aboard, more than twice the number of white women ever before on the island at one time. The natives are agog with inter- t over the equipment which has been transported to their island They are friendly, and on having the object of the expedition explained, re especially desirous of success. hey have even offered prayers on behalf of the expeditions. Navy Helps In Work Commande H. J. Keppler of the naval expedition, supervised construction of the 65-foot camera tower on which a 2,500 pound cam- era has been mounted on concrete pillars. This piece of equipment and |a dozen other pieces of apparatus, form the navy's contribution toward | obtaining permanent records of the | eclipse. | Other scientists who will observe |the event are Professor S. A. Mitch- |ell of the Unive , N. P. Fales, and Dr. T. A. noted volcanologist of Hu- servers. Dr. Mitchell plans to study atoms in the sun's flaming atmosphere, 93 million miles distant. '~ Dr. Mitchell said the almost incredible feat of studying them in the sun is not only feasible but has been thoroughly worked out. 'SOLDIERS AND WIFE HELD | Murder Charges to Be Filed Agai Fort Sam Houston Men for Murder of Uhr. San Antonio, 1 Murder charges w filing today agains Houston soldiers and Mrs. Clara Uhr, widow of Daniel H. Uhr, in- valid, who was slain with an axe last Friday night. Private Lexie Jones, 38, confessel he killed Uhr as he lay bed-ridden by paralysis for $50¢ the woman promised him from her husband’s insurance policies, police said. He implicated « fellow soldier, Donald | Walker, charging Walker introduced 1im to Mrs, Uhr and the three of them planned the killing. | Police said Jones told them the woman furnished the axe. She want- |ed him slain, he safd, because she was in desperate finanical straits |and needed money from Uhr's 00 insurance policies. s Oct. 20 (UP) re prepared for two Fort Sam | USE HERALD CLASSIPIED -ADS sa is not | @ —| | ty of Virginia; his | | INSLAYING OF INVALID| BRISTOL NEWS (Continued From Page Nine) Reckless Driver Held | Arrested on a chgrge of reckless | driving saturday afternoon after bis car had collided with one owned by W. A. Ingraham of 72 Prospect strcet and operated by Bugene W. Gagnon of Perlmore hotel at Park land Tulip streets, William Mann of | 200 Pittsburg avenue, Milwaukee, | Wis., is being held by local police | under a $100 bonds for appearance |in court tomorrow morning. |Ingraham car was considerably damaged. Police Gagnon was park street to the side of report that driving sterly on | when he was forced |the road by the Mann car ning into the curbing, the Ingraham car overturned. The Mann | which carried a huge [ resembling structure as an adver- | tisement, was owned by the Sperry Candy company of Wisconsin. Memorial Service A special service in memoriam of the late Willianm ons, many years was superintendent of the Methodist church Sunday wili be held Sunday eevning in the Sessions will present a decedent to the service for his Sessions. Kenneth portrait of it church at the mother, Mrs. W. Dr. Arthur H. Goodenough, pastor of the parish from 1900 to 1910. Isaac B. Clark of Waterbury, former director of the church choir, will be in charge of the vocalists, several of whom sang under Mr. Clark’s di- rection years ago. An-invitation to attend the ceremonies has been ex- tended to all who knew the late Mr. Sessions, whether or not they of the Methodist congre- David T. Ogden this city, died at his home in Wol- cott Friday, it has been learned. He leaves a wife, Mary L. Ogden, and o son, William P. Ogden, and three grandchildren, all of Waterbury. The funeral was held from the Prospect Methodist church in this city at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon, followed by interment in West ceme- | tery. Masses in New Edifice Although the newly constructed St. Anthony's church will mot be | dedicated until Sunday, November 30, masses were celebrated in it yes- terday morning at 7:30, o'clock. masses. The church will seat persons, and additional space in the choir will accommodate at least 100 niore. r. Baldwin Gives Concert Dr. Minor C. Baldwin, interna- tionally known organist, gave a con- cert at the Prospect Methodist | church last evening. Dr. Carl A. spoke on that nation recently, in from China, | critical conditions | after the concert | Mrs, Henry M. Newton | Mrs. Mary Carper Newton, wife of M. of Brooklyn Henry Newton N. Y. of 239 Grove street. Services for im- mediate friends were held this after- noon, after which the body was transported to Manhassett, Long Island, for burial. Hold Outing | The employes of the public works | Gepartment held their annual outing | at sally's lake on Fall mountain | saturday | spaghetti was served. Warranty Deeds Filed following warranty office of the city The were filed at the clerk this morning: C. Helm and Nellie , Lang, land on Murray road. From Charlena E. Nystrom to Herbert A. Gillette, two lots in Hill- crest park and four in Homestead | park From Herbert A Gillette Charlena E. Nystrom, land buildings in Maplewood, on Burling- to The | Run- | r, | chicken- | chool, | Prospect Methodist church. William | The speaker at the service will be | are | David T. Ogden, 81, formerly of Felt, who returned to this country | died Saturday at the home of | her daughter, Mrs. William R. Bowes | afternoon. Sports were en- | joved and a dinner of chicken and | deeds From Victoria Pietrorioa to Frank | and | 208 Made Voters It was announced by City Clerk Thomas B. Steele this morning that |a total of 208 voters have been made in Bristol this fall. Of these, | 90 were made at the city clerk’s of- fice Saturday. Marine Lamp Co. Hearing A hearing on tke confirmation of the appointment of the Bristol American Bark and Trust Co. as temporary receiver of the National | Marine Lamp Co. of Forcstville will | be held before Judge Allyn Brown in superior court at Hartford on October 28. The ' application was prompted by Veeder-Root, Inc. The hank is now acting as receiver for a term of onc month. A statement was received today by stockholders in which it is ex- plained that “the exigencies of the | case demand the immediate appoint- | ment of a temporary receiver . lin order that its assets not be | wasted and the interest of its stock- holders and creditors may be pro4 tected.” Mess Cross-Lonergan- Paoness speak at High School Wednesda; advt. | | | | | I who for | 10 NEW PARALYS] ASLES Hartford, Oct. 20 (A—The num- | ber of new cases of infantile paraly sis in Connecticut reported for the ended at noon today is ten, the same number reported to the department of health for the week | state | 1ast three weeks. { Farmington had two, Hartford two, Middletown two, Manchester, New- ington, Wallingford and Colchester one each. 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